In Rostov, the security forces came with searches to Navalny's associates and opponents of the war

In Rostov-on-Don, several local activists were searched. The security forces came to the human rights activist and former employee of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny (the organisation is considered extremist in Russia and is banned) Tatyana Sporysheva, to the mother of Sergei Grivko, who was the coordinator of the Rostov headquarters, as well as to activists Boris Papayan and Elena Belan who went to anti-war pickets.

Lawyer Yevgeny Berkovich said that the search is being carried out with the sanction of the Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism, initiated against journalist Sergei Reznik, who emigrated from the country.

"Neither Sporysheva, nor Bilan, nor Papayan have anything to do with this case. The employees of the authorities took advantage of this case to intimidate civil activists and seize all their equipment," the lawyer specified.

Berkovich added that as part of the search, two tablets, phones and a laptop were seized from Sporysheva. Gadgets were also confiscated from other activists. Operations have now been completed.

Participants of the protest against the war with Ukraine were detained in Krasnodar

In Krasnodar several dozen residents attended the anti-war rally announced by the team of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. About 10 people were detained. As civic activist Viktor Chirikov told, he was detained along with 79-year-old Leonid Burlakov next to the Alexander Arch.

“We were just sitting on a bench without posters and slogans. Several people in civilian clothes came up, pushed into a police UAZ, there were already two people in the compartment. The police department began to demand an explanation. Three hours later we were released,” the source said.

According to Chirikov, there were more than 10 people at the police department. At the same time, the policemen discussed the execution of protocols on disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers for two detainees.

Police detained participants in anti-war actions in Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don and Sochi

In Russia anti-war actions announced by the team of opposition politician Alexei Navalny are taking place. In all cities, they are accompanied by detentions of citizens, despite the absence of posters and other attributes of public events. In Volgograd, security forces detained seven people, in Rostov-on-Don - at least three.

For two Volgograd residents, the police drew up reports for failure to comply with the rules of conduct in case of emergency or the threat of its occurrence - the formal reason was the lack of a passport during the current anti-COVID restrictions.

In Rostov-on-Don, the detainees were taken to police department No. 3. In the morning, searches were carried out at the homes of former employees of Navalny's Rostov headquarters and activists who went out to anti-war pickets.

At the same time, the OVD-Info portal reports two detained Sochi residents. According to Ilyenkova, the police could detain them on the approaches to the square, as they tracked down the likely participants in the anti-war action in advance.

Two residents of Sochi arrested for posting anti-war leaflets

The Central District Court of Sochi considered administrative protocols against local residents Elena Semyonova and Shamsutdin Gadzhiev, who were found guilty of violating the established procedure for holding public events - they posted leaflets calling against Russia's military aggression in Ukraine.

As follows from the materials of the administrative case (available to Kavkaz.Realii), Semenova and Gadzhiyeva pasted up A4 stickers late in the evening "with text containing signs of preliminary campaigning." The stickers were reportedly inscribed with the words "We don't want war, that's enough, go away, you're killing children, you're depriving our brothers and sisters of their homes" and an image of President Putin.

The sanctions of the administrative article assigned to her require a fine of 20 to 30 thousand rubles or up to 10 days of administrative arrest. Federal judge of the Central District Court of Sochi Valery Butyaev sentenced her to the maximum sentence of ten days.

Ten people from six regions died in Ukraine

Six regions of the North Caucasus - North Ossetia, Dagestan, Stavropol, and Krasnodar territories, as well as Rostov and Astrakhan regions reported the death of 10 locals who were a part of Russia's military aggression in Ukraine.

One of them, according to regional media, is a 21-year-old resident of the village of Kuli in the Kulinsky district of Dagestan, Makhmud Channanov. The details of his death are unknown.

The head of the Buynaksk district, Kamil Iziev, expressed condolences on the administration’s page for the death of a resident of Buynaksk, Kazim Muradov. Also in Ukraine, another resident of the city, Abdulabek Baibulatov, died. The circumstances of their deaths are not specified.

Aslan Dzantiev, a native of Alagirsky Mizur in North Ossetia, was hit by mortar fire, was wounded, and killed by an explosion on the way to the hospital, according to local publications. Timur Karginov, a native of Surkh-Digora, also died in Ukraine.

According to the governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin, junior sergeant Temirlan Dzhasagulov was buried in the village of Alcha in the Krasnoyarsk region of the Astrakhan region. He was 29 years old.

In the Stavropol Territory, a resident of the village of Essentukskaya in the Piedmont Region, Georgy Romanov, was buried. The head of the district, Nikolai Bondarenko, announced his death on his Instagram.

The head of the Labinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, Vladimir Zaburaev, expressed his condolences to the family and friends on the death of Corporal Yevgeny Gerasimov. He noted that he died on February 28. Private Anton Burkin was buried in the village of Atamanskaya in the Pavlovsky district of the region. He served as a pontoon driver.

In Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, 29-year-old captain Vyacheslav Maklagin was buried, the district administration said. 

Anti-war rally participants found guilty in absentia in Volgograd

About 10 administrative cases on violation of the established procedure for holding a public event were considered by the Central District Court of Volgograd without summoning the accused. This was reported by lawyer Roman Zaitsev. All those punished participted in an anti-war action.

According to the lawyer, they took receipts from the detainees with an obligation to appear in court on March 9, although at that time the administrative materials had not been submitted to the court.

“In fact, the police assumed the functions of the court to notify the persons involved in the case. They came at the indicated time, stood for 40 minutes on the street - due to anti-virus restrictions, the bailiff simply did not let them into court, saying that there were no meetings. And later… they found on the Gosuslugi portal the fine assigned to them, that is, the meetings were held without proper notification," says Romanov.

An activist from Krasnodar who went on pickets emigrated to the USA

Krasnodar resident Ilya Ermachkov and his family moved from Russia to the United States due to pressure from the security forces. Previously, he was twice brought to administrative responsibility for single pickets.

“I didn’t understand how to survive this at all. The police began to come to my house regularly. Guardianship officials began to take an interest in the living conditions of my three children, there was a possibility of their removal. They would have opened a criminal case," Yermachkov said.

Already after leaving the country, he began to receive calls from the police department with a demand to appear for preventive registration and the security forces questioned his neighbours.

The Krasnodar citizen flew from Russia to another country, where he applied to the US Embassy with a request for asylum, so he got there even without obtaining a visa.

Three residents of Taganrog were fined twice for single-person pickets against the war

The city court of Taganrog in the Rostov region found three activists guilty of violating the established procedure for holding a public event and discrediting the actions of the Russian armed forces, imposing heavy fines on them.

"Two protocols were drawn up against us - according to the ‘rally’ and the new article of the Code of Administrative Offenses. We held single pickets on March 5 on Taganrog Square. The police arrived at our house on the morning of March 6. The pickets were single, we just replaced each other," Kavkaz said. He asked not to be named.

They were holding a poster "Russians, do you want to bury your son for 7,421,000 rubles???" - this is the amount Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed as payment to all family members of servicemen who died during the hostilities in Ukraine.

For violating the procedure for holding a rally, activists were fined 25,000 each, and public actions to discredit the use of the armed forces were fined 35,000 each. At the same time, one of those called to account under the ‘rally’ article was fined five thousand less than the others.

In Volgograd, Novorossiysk and Krasnodar, trials were held against participants in anti-war actions

The Central District Court of Volgograd found two local residents guilty of violating the established procedure for holding a public event. This was reported by lawyer Roman Zaitsev, who represented their interests in the courts.

The lawyer specified that the residents of Volgograd who were brought to administrative responsibility were detained during the anti-war action on March 6.

"We do not agree with the protocol and the court's decision, because we believe that citizens exercised their constitutional right. The court's decision will be challenged in the appellate instance," lawyer Zaitsev added.

Vadim Savin, a resident of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar Territory, received seven days of administrative arrest for "holding a public event, namely disagreement with Russia's actions against Ukraine." He also pleaded not guilty. The judge considered that the police documents were sufficient to prosecute.

One from the Volgograd region, another from the Astrakhan region died in Ukraine

In the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions, two more servicemen who died during military operations in Ukraine were reported. Thus, the total number of killed soldiers from the South of Russia and the Caucasus amounted to 110 people.

Residents of the village of Tambovka, Kharabalinsky district, Astrakhan region, said goodbye to their countryman Rysbek Nurpeisov. This was announced by the district administration. He was 24 years old. According to official figures, this is the fourth resident of the Astrakhan region who died during the war.

The local publication notes that Nurpeysov "dreamed of serving in the army from school." Since 2016, he has served in the missile forces.

The funeral of Corporal Roman Filatov from Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, has not yet been scheduled as his body has not yet been delivered to his homeland. Filatov was 27 years old. He was the 13th soldier from the Volgograd region who died in Ukraine.